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SEEN in Journalism
@JournalismSEEN
A network for journalists and content-makers across platforms who seek to restore accuracy and impartiality to media coverage of sex and gender
Jun 29 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
‘Ofcom warned @GBNEWS..it could not treat the controversy as settled despite the Supreme Court ruling’

A direct contradiction to a letter sent to us:

‘We are not a censor or prebroadcast regulator. We do not seek to editorialise or to influence the content of news broadcasts’
/ Image But @Ofcom told us:

‘We do not issue definitive requirements to television or radio broadcasters on the language they should or shouldn’t not use in their programmes in relation to any issue, including gender identity or sex-based rights’ Image
Jun 20 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
1 Anti-trans vs anti-woman

The @scotnational was deeply wounded by being described as anti-woman - perhaps more so than expected.

It’s very touchy behaviour from an outlet that’s not shy to stick its own belief-driven labels on those outside its gender identity ecosystem.
/ Image It’s open about running ‘many articles previously describing groups like Sex Matters as anti-trans’ and believes it can justify it.

It is fringe in putting these thoughts to paper, but the view that campaigners are ‘anti-trans’ is silently held by many across legacy media.
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Jun 11 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
It was confirmed this afternoon that the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness, is still consulting with BBC staff networks - despite the fact that there’s still no network supporting sex-based rights.

This came on an ‘Ask Me Anything’ staff call with Director-General Tim Davie.
/ An application to start a network for sex-based rights - effectively a SEEN network - has already been ignored.

Subsequently the then executive sponsor of the nominally ‘women’s’ network refused to meet women within the BBC to discuss the issue.
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Jun 8 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
What we didn’t post about earlier, as the thread just got too long, and it was a busy morning, was the importance of research.

One of our submissions to an ongoing BBC review is the urgent need to supply a range of fact checks.

Some background for non-journos - when an item
/ /like this is set up, there’s a pre-interview for research purposes, by a producer usually.

They go through the questions that will come up in some form and the sorts of answers they’re looking to tease out

It’s to ensure no one’s caught on the hop

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Jun 8 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Hi @SeanPaulKearns @SteveScottNEWS

Do listen to @Riley_Gaines_ - specifically her point that it’s not the job of females to find a way for men and boys, who say they’re female, to play competitive sport.

You will have struggled to understand this for one reason.
/ Your journalistic lens frames these men as women. You’ve been trained to think of them as a type of woman, because you can’t believe any man would do something as humiliating as pretend to be a woman unless he has a ‘female brain’. In your heads, they’re a type of woman.
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May 25 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
‘Around £20 million in taxpayers’ money was spent on “feminising genital surgery” for biological men, INCLUDING TEENAGERS, over the course of three years, despite warnings that the procedure causes long-term harm’

@Telegraph Image ‘It is the first time figures for this surgery on the NHS have been published and data seen by The Telegraph suggests that more than a third of the patients are under 30’

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May 18 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Never asking how women felt for years. Never asking for women’s lived experience. Never focussing on women’s fears. Never looking for the human stories behind women’s campaigning.

It’s been a living hell for women and for many it still is.

This is activism not journalism. Image All members of Pride, interviewed by a man.

It’s a contemptible piece of work, to add to the pile of pity pieces produced by the BBC over a decade to help secure policy capture across the UK.

Because of work like this, women have to fight in court.

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bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
May 11 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
‘Karen was terrified..She broke down sobbing to colleagues after being repeatedly asked by Rose (who was ‘wearing boxer shorts with holes in them which meant I could see his male anatomy’) why she wasn’t getting changed’

She should *never* have had to go to the papers

Link next Image This is the most horrific story you’ll read in a while. Karen was to have an urgent hysterectomy, and on requesting that Rose not be on the team, was asked: ‘How would Rose feel if she was asked not to come to theatre?’

Lack of paywall deserves credit.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
May 11 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
These episodes of I Kissed A Boy [Or A Girl] are now available. Links next. References to it being a ‘gay dating show’ are disappearing. Latest from Radio Times promo also in the thread. Image
Image The @RadioTimes is from this morning @katelynnmensah_ (she/her)

It’s possible the BBC and RT imagine that not saying gay’ or ‘same sex’ means they are no longer misrepresenting the nature of the show

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

radiotimes.com/tv/entertainme…
May 4 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Very ill-informed article, starting with the opening line comparing the ban on women’s football a century ago to the ban on men in women’s football now.

From then, it gets worse.

Wouldn’t have expected this under the old Observer.
observer.co.uk/news/sport/art… A tragedy to see the Observer parroting the same tired affirmation cliches as the @guardian

‘history of being a place of inclusivity for LGBTQIA+’

‘fighting for inclusion an inextricable part of the identity of women’s football’

‘people feel safe to simply be who they are’ Image
May 4 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This is quite important on the choice of voices.

Gender identity campaigners are not being put up against academic experts whose input is defined by scientific research such @FondOfBeetles @runthinkwrite and @Scienceofsport
/ The women he names @DerryBanShee @mara_yamauchi @sharrond62 have been forced to conduct their own research and are extremely, extremely well-equipped to debunk non-scientific claims.

However they can still be framed by news outlets as *campaigners* rather than *experts*.

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Apr 23 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
You have to question why the BBC is now extremely obsessed with toilets. It’s been the primary question across many BBC outlets and the first point in the @BBCWomansHour introduction.

It has never been concerned with men using women’s toilets and changing rooms.

/ Trans-identified men are still described as women across coverage, matched with a profound commitment to asking whether women have empathy with these men.

All are misled on the idea that the overreach of activists over the last decade was built on legally established rights.
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Apr 2 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Julie Bindel to Helen Joyce at Oxford LitFest - ‘Why did journalists leave this topic alone for so long?’

Helen: ‘Young people were coming into journalism with the idea that it was their job to be an advocate, and senior people in newsrooms weren’t ready for that..’
/ Image /‘They were letting journalists write what they wanted. The ‘gender’ topic isn’t anyone’s beat, so everyone could leave it alone, and still square it with their conscience. That left a hole, and the hole was filled by journalists who are activists’ Image
Mar 21 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
We had two emails yesterday that illustrate the type of problem facing the media over inaccurate descriptions of men as women. What most interests us is that they didn’t contain any substantive defence of the practice. There wasn’t even an attempt at it.
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Image It’s an acknowledgment that there is, in fact, no substantive defence for it at all. Nobody says ‘this is the right thing to do because’. Instead there are only references to higher authorities.
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Mar 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Response from Surrey Police:

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Mar 1 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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‘The NHS spends as much on controversial transgender treatments as it does on common anti-depressants, penicillins or beta-blockers..In the first ten months of 2024/25 alone the figure was £88 million – up a fifth on the previous 12 months’

@MailOnline Image ‘The amount is close to what it would cost to supply all 1,000 women in England and Wales who would benefit from Enhertu, a drug that would give women with advanced breast cancer an extra six months of life…It was turned down by the NHS last year for being too expensive’ Image
Feb 23 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
From inside the BBC on ‘Inspirational Mums’

‘It’s so demoralising. I no longer feel able to defend the BBC as an employee. News and quality children’s output are the cornerstone of public service broadcasting and the best argument for the licence fee. This totally undermines us’ ‘I used to take the view that most errors were cock-up rather than conspiracy but this clearly isn’t’

‘Being gaslit on a daily basis by your own employer is not the best motivation. Knowing that activists are being given free rein to dictate BBC content is sickening’
Feb 12 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
So this is quite important for the legacy media taboo on referencing fetish, although nothing sexual was referenced in court.

It’s the first permitted nod to the understanding of ‘trans’ as a fantasy. It’s been impossible to say or suggest this in most newsrooms.
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Image Naomi Cunningham is obviously not deliberately engaged in ‘nudge’ but that’s the effect.

See also pronouns. It’s not the decision they land on, it’s the fact they’ve never had to think so hard about it

In dropping ‘she’ they’re finding workarounds they never had to use before
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Dec 23, 2024 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
The year in pictures: 124 BBC items and 12 months of affirmation. The year the Director-General told MPs that the BBC had to be 'caring and nice', rather than telling the truth: the year that one of radio's most respected presenters was reprimanded for calling men 'male'.
/ Image SiJ launched a day before Tim Davie sat before the Media Committee. We knew BBC coverage was weak to appalling (but for Newsnight) but were still stunned when he threw accuracy so visibly under the bus. He's met plenty of people who've explained the problem, including some of us Image
Dec 21, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Please complain, and progress to second stage and Ofcom when it’s rejected, as it will be.

There’s no reason for the BBC to comply with this man’s chosen identity.

This kind of outdated and slavish compliance harms everyone, including the BBC. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… It’s a breach of the Editorial Guidelines on accuracy and impartiality.

When they tell you ‘we just comply with our own style guide’ - tell them that this is exactly the problem we all want to solve.
Dec 13, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Why is this important? Not just double standards.

Ipso complaints policy prioritises the sensibilities of the ‘main party’ of interest.

That *should*, in any crime, be the victim.

Ipso doesn’t think so. It always demotes the victims and prioritises the criminal.

Link next Image It did this with reports of Alex Secker too. Even though his victim used male pronouns in court, Ipso refused to progress a complaint about the use of female pronouns, because Secker is the main party.

It’s not case by case - it’s policy.

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